Recently, my daughter showed me her collection of sea glass. Also
known as beach glass, the varied bits of colored glass are sometimes
pieces of pottery but often they are pieces of shattered glass bottles.
Originally the glass had a purpose, but then it was casually thrown away
and became broken.
If the discarded glass ends up in an ocean, its journey is just
beginning. As it is relentlessly tossed about by currents and tides, its
jagged edges are ground down by the sand and waves and eventually are
smoothed away and rounded off. The result is something beautiful. The
jewel-like sea glass has found new life and is treasured by collectors
and artists.
In a similar way, a broken life can be renewed when it is touched by
God’s love and grace. In the Old Testament, we read that when the
prophet Jeremiah watched a potter working, he noticed that if an object
was marred the potter simply reshaped it (Jer. 18:1-6). God explained
that in His hands the people of ancient Israel were like clay, which He
would shape as He saw best.
We are never too badly broken for God to reshape. He loves us in
spite of our imperfections and past mistakes, and He desires to make us
beautiful.

Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!Thou art the Potter, I am the clay;Mold me and make me after Thy will,While I am waiting, yielded and still. —Pollard

When melted by trial, we can be fully molded by the Potter.

Insight

Jeremiah
is often referred to as the weeping prophet because of the
disheartening messages he was often called to deliver to the people of
Israel. This title is also appropriate considering the fact that he also
wrote the book of Lamentations. In today’s passage, God shows Jeremiah
that there is no situation that is not redeemable. No matter the mar, no
matter the defect, God can remold and reshape the people of Israel into
something useful and beautiful. This is the same message that Paul
delivers to the church of Corinth. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ,
he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things
have become new” (2 Cor. 5:17). God takes the old and broken and
fashions it into something new and useful.

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About Me

I am Mel Alarilla, male, married, a Christian trying to be of service to God & His flocks. I aim to spend the remaining days of my life sharing the Gospel and its message to unbelievers who are still groping in the dark. I have no personal motives in doing this but the desire to please God and glorify His name in everything that I do. I have no pretensions in life. I am not extraordinary nor do I claim to be sublime. I am an ordinary mortal who suffers the same pitfalls common to man.